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Achievement in courses at the College is recorded by grades of A+/A/A-/B+/B/B-/C+/C/C-*/D+/D/D-/F/U/S/SC/P/CP/I. Also see Dean’s List and Graduating with Honors (to follow). The quality of a student’s academic achievement in each Berea College course is reported through final course grades in a grading scale adopted by the College Faculty, as follows:
A: Excellent work
B: Good work
C: Competent work*
D: Poor work that is still worthy of credit
Raises serious concern about the readiness of a student to continue in related course work.
F: Failing work that is unworthy of credit
CA: The required minimum of 7 Convocation credits were earned
CF: The required minimum of 7 Convocation credits were not earned
S/U/SC: Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory, Satisfactorily Completed
Given in developmental mathematics courses and in other non-credit courses and projects. These grades are not used in determining the GPA.
P: Passing work
Given for courses which do not affect GPA, but for which credit is earned.
CP: Continuing progress
Given when a student is enrolled in a class that continues into the next term.
I: Incomplete
Assigned only when some portion of a course has not been completed for good and sufficient reason. Courses in which I grades are assigned must be completed not later than the end of the next regular term in which the student is enrolled or the grade will be recorded as “F” on the permanent record. Note that instructors may set an earlier deadline for completion
of incomplete work than that set by the College.
In addition, the course grades of A, B, C, and D may be modified by a plus (+) or minus (-) suffix, indicating achievement which is respectively at the higher or lower segment of each of these grade ranges.
For grades in courses a student withdraws from, see “Course Withdrawal Policy and the Academic Record”.
* Please note that a C- does not count for courses or prerequisites requiring a C or higher (e.g. FRN 102 requires a C or higher in FRN 101 or the requirement that all grades earned in the major, prerequisite, or collateral courses for Physical Education majors and Health minors be C or higher). A C- also falls below the standard of a C in order to be removed from Academic Probation.
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